Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:57:32 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: "William Tracy" <afishionado@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <70e8236f0610151557m441baf19ma2ffc0cf504f4edb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/15/06, Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/15/06, William Tracy <afishionado@gmail.com> wrote: > > Okay. > > > > I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is > > running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my > > USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. > > I can browse the web in Firefox. I even compiled my own kernel so that > > I'm all 1337. :-) > > > > Overall, I like FreeBSD--the kernel build process felt a lot smoother > > than Linux, the /boot and /sys file heirarchies makes more sense to me > > than /boot and /usr/src under Linux, and the /dev heirarchy seems > > sane, though it's still pretty alien to me. So far, everything I do > > under Linux I can do under FreeBSD. > > > > FreeBSD is nice, but I haven't seen anything really *compelling* about > > it. FreeBSD might be more stable as a server, but for my desktop Linux > > has proven more than stable enough. (X crashes sometimes, but FreeBSD > > can't really fix that.) The extra file flags look intersting, but > > otherwise I haven't seen anything that I can do under FreeBSD that I > > can't with Linux. > > > > So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD > > can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. > > > > William Tracy > > Well, I guess you can ask yourself some questions: > - Is there something now that you can't do but were able to using > Linux (or vice-versa) ? > - Hardware support (might fit the previous question) > - Is performance better/worse ? > - Your global experience with it: installation, usage, documentation, support. > > From my experience, I was using linux before FreeBSD, but I always > felt curiosity to test it. > My first try was with 5.0 and although slow at the time (processing > apache logs with awstats) I loved it. Two things come out shining: > it's a complete OS not a kernel glued with userland and libraries and > the documentation is supreme. > > Just my 2 euro cents ;-) Ok, make that 3: Ports I really don't miss rpm hell. -- Joao Barros
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